I have many journalist friends who have either a criminal charge pending against them or have already been convicted. Each conviction of a journalist is a chain attached to...
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Freedom Of Thought And Expression
Laïcité versus freedom of religion: a Gordian knot within the French republic?
Since its entry into force in 2004, the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols has been perceived as a matter of concern by actors involved in dialogues...
Turkey’s Council of State, which is the high court for cases related to administrative law, has a long history, beginning in the Ottoman era. Since its establishment in 1868...
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Refugee, Asylum And Migration
Mediterranean Sea and Frontex: a deadly war against the weakest
In the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy of October 2013, more than 360 lifeless bodies were rescued from the waves in what was then labeled the worst shipwreck of...
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Women's Human Rights
Could the İstanbul Convention provide a safe haven for women in Turkey?
Violence against women occurs in, and affects a large spectrum of, countries and cultures all over the world, but in recent years it has been taking place with alarming frequency...
We have seen the latter in the insufferable killing of Özgecan Aslan in Tarsus, Mersin. This was the latest case of violence against women, but it will not be...
Günal Kurşun It is really not an easy word to say for an ordinary Turkish citizen, after all the negative propaganda they receive at school. When we say “genocide”...
Historic opportunity…. ETÖ (Ergenekon Terrorist Organization) presents a historic opportunity for Turkey. Second indictment was made public. The indictment has captured -from all perspectives- the images of coup plotters, enemies...
When the first influx of Syrians looking for refuge in the neighboring countries of Syria took place in 2011/12, the international community could not anticipate that the Syrian Civil...
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Refugee, Asylum And Migration
Call to the Turkish government to resume its open-door policy towards Syrians and to open its border for İraqi refugees
The lack of a near-term solution to the Syrian civil war as well as the establishment of a caliphate by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS – formerly known as...